Shade-fixture



S. OSTROWSKI.

SHADE FIXTURE.

' APPLICATION FILED PR. as, 1919.

Patented Nov. 25, 1919.

INVENTOR Std/11 Ostrowslri STANLEY os'rnowsxr, or scnalvrolv, PENNSYLVANIA" SHADE FIXTURE.

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Specification of Letters Ifatent.

Application filed April 1919. Serial Nd. 290,201.

I '0 all whom it may concern: 2 Be it known that I, STANLEY Os'rRowsKI, a citizen of Poland, residing at Scranton, county of Lackawanna, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in ShztdeFixtures, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in shade fixtures, such as are used'in connection with window shades, curtains, and similar draperies. g

The principal object of the invention is to provide a fixture which may be quickly and firmly applied in position to the window frame or removed therefrom at will. A'further object is to provide such tures with clamping or engaging devices bywhich the fixture may be secured without the use of screws, nails or like fastenings. V These and other like objects are attained by the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described, and shown in the accompanying drawings, forming a material part of this disclosure, and in which Figure 1 is a front plan view showing a shade fixture made in accordance with the invention.

Fig. 2 is an end elevational view of the same.

a post 17, fixed near the opposite edge of the plate 14, while pivoted on the bolt 17 is a lever 18, its free operative "end 1'9 extending outwardly beyond the ratchet teeth, while a reduced neck portion 20 therebetween is beveled so that it may be engaged with any of the teeth de sired.

Formed through the central portion of the lever 18 is an elongated slot 22, receptive of a pin 23 extending up from a bar 24, slidable in a longitudinal slot 25, formed in the upper surface of the plate 14. The bar 2 is be t rearwardly at 2 and. formed,

with a T shaped head 27, having upon its lower edge a plurality of sharp serrations 28 engageable in the wooden window frame when the lever 18 is pressed downward.

' Also formed in the lower central part of the base-plate 14 are a plurality of trans verse recesses 30, joined by a central passage 31, receptive of a T shaped head 32,

formed with the bar 33, movable in a longitudinal slot 34, in alinement with the slot 25, the bar having a rearwardly turned portion36, merging into a T shaped head 37 provided with serrations adapted to engage with the lower side of the'window frame.

Itxwill be understood that the T'shaped head 32 may be engaged in any of the recesses 30, thereby changing the relative distance between the serrations 3.8 and plate which, .in conjunction with the serrations 28, hold the fixture firmly clamped to the windowframe. h

Secured upon the face of the plate 14 is a block 40 from which extends a raised transverse bar 41 upon which ordinary shade brackets 42, maybe slidably engaged so that adjustment may be made in the fixtures according to the width-of the curtain or shade employed. 7

Fixed in the plate 14, at its upper side, is

a rigid wire 44, which may be outwardlyturned and formed into a support for a drapery roller of the ordinary type.

From the foregoing it will be seen that a neat and effective device has been disclosed whereby shade fixtures may be removably clamped to the wooden framework of a window, and withoutthe use of screws, nails or other fastening means.

In operation, the back of the plate 14 is placed against the frame, the T shaped head 32 engaged in an appropriate recess 30, the lever 18 being at that time in a raised position, whereupon by drawingdown the lever 18, the opposing serrations 28 are causedto engage with the upper surface of the w1n dow frame, clamping the device securely thereto.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a shade fixture, the combination with a rigid plate, a serrated element engageable in said plate. at different distances from its Patented Nov. 25, 1919.

center, a second serrated element slidably a lever pivoted onsaid plate, said lever having a slot engageable with a pin'in aid'secnd element, ratchet teeth formed inone of the marginal edges' of said plate, means combined with said lever for engagingwith p said ratchet teeth, and means for supporting a shade secured to said plate 2. In a shade fixture, the combination with. a rigid plate, a rib extending marginally along one of the edges of saidplate, a plurality ofcoarse, ratchet-shaped teeth in the upper face of said rib, a plurality of symmetrical transverse recesses formed in the faceof saidplate, passages leading between said recesses terminating in a slot in the lower edge of said plate, a T shaped head engageable in said transverse recesses,

a bar formed with said T shaped head, said bar extending through said slot, and having a bent lower end, spur elements formed with said lower end engageable with the lower, surface of the window frame, a barslidable longitudinally in said plate at the upper portion-thereof, a rearwardly turned end formed in said bar,said end having sharp spurs engageable with the upper'surface of thewindow frame,a pin in said bar, a lever pivoted on said plate, said leverhaving a slot' engaged with said pin, and a reduced beveled portion on said lever adapted to catch underneath ofsaidratchet teeth for said bar having a T shapedhead engageable in any of the transverse recesses, a rearwardly turned head. on said bar having sharp corrugations adapted to engage With the lower surface of the window frame, a longitudinal slot formed'in the upper part of said plate, a bar slidable therein, a head formed insaid bar, said head having teeth engageable with the upper surface of the;

window frame, a lever pivoted on said plate, pin and slot connections between saidlever, and said plate, whereby the bar may be moved lengthwise, and reduced beveled portion on said lever adapted'to catch underneath' of said ratchet teeth for securing said lever in an adjusted'position;

In testimony whereof I signature;

have affixed my STANLEY 'OSTROWSKI. 

